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Unholy mixture of random generators, unsolved/ghost files banter, and things my friends have said

Occasional spoilers following below

A few notes for these: Tup is NB he/they. Hardcase is genderfluid. Vaughn is agender they/them. Jesse has no idea how any of this works, someone help him. NO CLONESHIPPING OR JEDI TRIO SHIPPING HERE!

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Historical European Martial Arts References for Writing

This is the start of something wonderful. At least, for writers craving Historical Accuracy. And for writing weapon scenes in general. Something that will really be helpful is the Sparring Ref. section, which is a list that includes links to actual sparring for a bunch of different weapons. This list will be constantly changing, if you have anything to add, DM me, or send me an Ask!

Starters

-HEMA Alliance Website

-Sword Terminology

-HEMA documentary

-Common Mistakes when Writing Sparring

Basics

-Guards for Fighting with Sword

-British Military Guides (Great to build off of, pay special attention to the cuts and the slip)

-Roworth Cutting Drills

-Longsword Guards

Weapons

-Spadroon

-Broadsword

-Backsword

-Halberd/Polearm

-Cane Fighting

-Pugilism Basics (Sherlock Holmes Era, Hand-to-Hand)

-Two Handed Battle Axe

-Dirk

-Whip Swords

-Scythe Discussion

Sparring Refs

-Slow Motion Sparring

-Broadsword v. Broadsword

-Broadsword v. Broadsword with Targe (shield)

-Longsword v. Broadsword

-Longsword v. Longsword

-Longsword v. Daggers

-Longsword v. Halberd

-Longsword v. Quarterstaff

-Dagger v. Dagger

-Rapier v. Dagger

-Rapier and Cloak v. Rapier and Cloak

-Saber v. Saber

-Pugilism Sparring

-Peasant Staff (This is just a big fucking stick)

-Double Axe v. Cutlass

-Axe v. Dagger

-Spear and Shield v. Sword and Shield

-Spear and Shield v. Spear

-Scythe v. Scythe

Books:

-The Expert Swords-Man’s Companion

-The Art of Defense on Foot

-Encased in Steel Anthology

-The Guards and Lessons of The Highland Broadsword

-Instructions for the Exercise of Small Arms and Field Pieces for the use of Her Majesty’s Ships

-German Longsword Study Guide

-Of the Single Rapier

-Dagger Fencing: The Italian School

-Royal Armouries Ms. I.33

-Historical European Martial Arts in Its Context: Single-Combat, Duels, Tournaments, Self-Defense, War, Masters and Their Treatises Richard Marsden

-The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570

-Scottish Broadsword and British Singlestick

-The Flower of Battle: Fascimile, Translation and Interpretation of the Getty Edition of Fiore Dei Liberi's Famous Treatise on Swordsmanship

-The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe

-The Duellist's Companion: A Training Manual for 17th Century Italian Rapier

Reader taking a bullet for Dick (because she loves him) but in the commotion of the fighting no one realises until they all finally get back to the tower and she passes out! Please - I would love you forever if it’s super angsty!

Ow Ow Ow Ow.. This rocked my shit right here. You already know I lovee angsty shit. Sooooo, this is Unrequited Love.. basically, you love Dick, and Dick loves Kori.. Maybe? You asked for thiiiisssss. This is also stupid long because I have no SELF CONTROL!

TW: Blood, Description of how it feels to pass out, ANGST

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Reasons why I don’t like Anidala

Disclaimer: My intentions with this post are to expose what I thing about this ship . In no way, shape , or form do I intend to offend those who ship it . If you like it , who am I to tell you that you are a bad person for it , right ? But I wanted to put out there some of my thought so here it goes . ( and sorry this is a giant of a post )

She was the catalyzer to his fall :

One thing most fans agree on, anti or not, is that Padmé was the catalyst for Anakin's downfall she is not to blame for it all, but she was the turning point. But I would like to see this from a more critical point, if Padmé was not in Anakin's life, or just being a friend, I can see that Palpatine wouldn’t have as much leverage to use and and abuse of Anakin , he wouldn’t have something as strong as the love that Anakin felt for Padmé to manipulate him. So it would be infinitely harder for him to make Anakin cooperate with him .

Anakin and Padmé are too incompatible:

To say that Anakin and Padmé have different points of view about the galaxy in which they live and how they should live, would be an understatement, it is shown several times that the two are very different, not only with their visions in politics as in their behavior. While Padmé, was a very independent and mature woman, Anakin had a more childish, brash and reckless demeanor, that he used to hide the pain of his past and the toll that the expectations of others had on him. Is see that if they spent the time that normal couples spent with each other they wouldn’t , hold on to it for long and end things for good .

Padmé didn’t understand Anakin fully:

So, we came to one of the points that made me realize that this ship wasn’t something in which the two characters could end up happy in. We all know that Anakin was a very troubles young man, the pain of his past was enormous and consumed him, however he never let the others see his pain only showing it when it was overwhelming to supress it. And Padmé never confronted him directly about this, she knew that he had pain, but she didn’t know how much it affected him, because she was very different from him and couldn’t come to understand. So in the contrary of helping him to come to terms with his fears and pain, her presence only made him not confront this part of himself, he wouldn’t appear weak, letting him get more and more consumed by its darkness .

They really didn’t have that much chemistry:

Now this is not the characters' fault, but how they were written, and how they were executed. In my opinion, the prequels are far from being a master piece, but for me the way the romance between Anakin and Padmé was constructed, bothered me a lot, because the position in which Padmé was placed, was that of the damsel in distress that needed a knight in shining armor to save her , I know that people like this trope, but I thought that their relationship could have been developed, in a situation where the two would be equals, and where the love that they felt for each other would have bloomed naturally.

They didn’t have enough time to develop their relationship before and after tying the knot:

Let's talk about the fact that they had seen each other ten years ago and after a week they got married. This did not help to form empathy for the couple, usually the spectators, form a kind of liking to the couple when they form a relationship, but the two did not have much of a relationship where empathy could be born, something that was only aggravated by the fact that after getting married, they saw each other from time to time, because of the Clone Wars, so the empathy that should be formed does not happen, at any point in the narrative .

Anakin and Padmé would have been better with other people :

It is no secret that their different roles in society brought different views of what was right and wrong, and the way they acted with each other was far from being something healthy. All I'm saying is that I wanted Padmé to be with someone that she could discuss about her intellectual things without being scared by the hot takes the other person had. And Anakin needed someone that helped him get over his shit , someone who understood his past and how he had been brought up, possibly someone who had been born in the same conditions as him, and who had left these conditions. Someone who like him would fight for his freedom at any cost.

They brought the worst out of each other :

We are lady talk about the fact that Anakin and Padmé were very different people, who had a direct influence on how the other behaved, for example, when Anakin had the any sort of doubt that Padmé was cheating on him with Clovis instead of confronting her and telling her why he was uncomfortable with that situation, he opted to beating the shit out of Clovis, bringing out the most violent, possessive and jealous parts of himself. And when Anakin went to Mustafa after order 66, Padmé didn’t think logically or wisely, as she had been portrayed to be, and ran to meet her beloved. So with those examples , my gut instinct says that yes they bring the worst parts of each other out .

In Conclusion:

No I'm not saying that for these reasons you should stop ship them, or that you're a bad person for doing so, far from it I just want to expose my opinion without any desire to offend anyone, and if you want to talk more about this please contact me, I'd love to hear different ideas.

This is a weird one but I'm curious. With werewolf stories there come a couple of cliches/tropes used when telling a story. I want to do a story about cliches and the topic of werewolves come into it. So my question... what cliches/tropes do you associate with werewolves? Can be what you like or don't like - thanks and sorry for such a weird ask ^^

(Sorry this took me so long to get around to; I really need to catch up on my ask backlog.)

I love all asks, including weird ones! Not that I’d call this one terribly weird, really.

There are a lot I associate with them, and plenty I do not like. Let me see if I can do a quick list. I said “quick” when I first wrote this post, then I wrote a small book, apologies in advance.

Note that pretty much any of these can be done well, and I’ll probably mention that. But there are some I truly cannot abide on a personal level.

One of these lists is longer than the other. Note I am doing tropes I actually have seen in popular culture, not ones I’d like to see, since that’d be a totally different topic and an even longer post! I also have a post here for a few little tips about writing werewolves/werecreatures.

Ones I like:

Eating people - Okay, so it was weird to open with this. But I like werewolves that eat people. Some people don’t. I do. I like them being big scary man-eating monsters. They can eat people and still be good (only eat bad people!), or they can be feral monsters with a taste for human flesh. I just like werewolves that eat people because… I just do. I also like them eating people alive in every sense of the word, as I covered in another fact (but not being mega stupid about it like wolves often were in later folk tales).

Voracious in general/insatiable - And taking off that first one, I do like werewolves that are voracious in general and/or have insatiable appetites. It’s a wolf trope, yeah. But I love it. The normal guy eats a steak. The werewolf eats like 8 giant steaks and is hungry again in a few hours. It’s fun!

Werewolves as wolves - In contrast to one on the list of things I don’t like, I enjoy werewolves exploring their wolfish side and/or exhibiting it, even in human form. It can be done horribly, of course, and I think it is immensely, endlessly silly when all werewolves in a setting are this way, but a few of them ending up like this (especially ones closer to their wolf side somehow) can be great. I am biased, of course, because the protagonist in a series of medieval fantasy werewolf novels I’ve been working on my entire life is a lot like this. The instincts, the love of raw meat… all that stuff. Not the overly silly stuff (more on that in “werewolves as dogs” and “dog jokes,” but the interesting, badass, wolfish stuff.

Moon association - I do actually like the pop culture association with werewolves and the moon.

Werewolves as guardians/protectors - This is a fairly rare one, but I do enjoy it when werewolves are guardians or protectors of something, like goodness in general, or guardians of nature, and all that sort of thing. Now, if they’re just guardians to some macguffin thing or some other very specific thing and it turns them into basically guardian golems or something? That’s pretty lame. But it can be cool. And werewolves as protectors of the innocent, that kind of stuff (like occurred in legend pretty often, as I’ve mentioned in several werewolf facts).

Dark forests - I love me some classic dark forest setting with a werewolf in it, and a distant, chilling howl when in creepy, foggy woods at night.

Loyal to the core - A trope among some werewolves is that they are super loyal. I like that.

Bloodthirsty - This doesn’t mean “evil,” this just means… well, bloodthirsty. I don’t like it as a trait for “all” werewolves, like all werewolves in a setting, but a bloodthirsty werewolf character, always itching for a fight and enjoying the smell of spilt blood? I have biases. My protagonist in Wulfgard is one, and I love them.

Basically the Hulk - The Hulk would be awesome if he was a werewolf, because he’s a lot of my favorite werewolf tropes. You won’t like him when he’s angry/volatile temper that will destroy everything, but when turned, he’s actually a good, gentle giant who saves people, despite his own opinions about his other form. (I am talking classic Hulk; newer Hulk stuff has, IMO, not reflected this very well, or else chosen simply not to do that/explore it)

Painful/traumatic transformation - I love painful transformations. I do not like some kinds of transformations (I detest the skin flaying/wolf bursting out of a person/etc), but make it hurt. Make them scream. Traumatize anyone who has to see or so much as hear it and traumatize the werewolf if they remember it. I am cruel.

Werewolf angst - Okay, so I know a lot of people in werewolf circles moan about “werewolf angst.” I like it. There. I said it. It can be done horribly, of course, and it’s often overused, but this is absolutely no reason to condemn it altogether. It can still make for a truly awesome story.

Noble werewolves - A personal favorite, obviously!

Werewolves are sexy/more attractive than most people - I mean. I’m okay with this. I like the whole primal sexiness thing, as silly and overdone as it can be at times. Don’t you want someone with a wild side? And all that.

Involuntary transformation - I also like this in general. It can be done horribly, just like anything else, but usually I like it a lot and prefer it to werewolves just being a superpower you can flick on and off (although those can be done well, too, for sure, and I do not dislike voluntary transformation).

Ones I do not like:

Dog jokes (barking, sniffing crotches, peeing everywhere, chasing things, etc.) - Unpopular opinion time! Get all of this away from me. Far away. It is not funny, it is so old and worn out and absolutely overused and predictable now, and can we please stop turning werewolves into jokes and actually take them seriously ever? It’s truly terrible and the biggest factor that set me on this path to try to convince the world to take werewolves seriously again. And the second a werewolf barks, I am out and you will never see me again. Wolves. Do not. Bark. (It felt very good to vent this, even if I will probably get trolled and flamed into oblivion later.)

Werewolves as dogs - Generally having any dog-like qualities; goes hand in hand with the previous one. Please at least treat them like wild animals, because they are wolves, not domesticated. They do not have domesticated dog instincts. They do not have domesticated dog qualities. They are half man, half wolf.

Plague - I do not like this modern idea that werewolves are basically disease victims, especially since lycanthropy was not considered a “disease” until fairly recently. That they are only dangerous because they are diseased, not because they’re giant hulking intelligent monsters that can kill you with ease and are borderline invincible. I don’t mind the “lycanthropy as a disease” thing, or the transmission by bite - I think it can be done well and I use the bite transmission myself. I just do not think it should be presented as a plague, and anything that uses phrases like “werewolf infestation” will immediately raise my ire. Werewolves are not plague rats.

Only dangerous in packs and/or giant hordes like zombies - This goes a lot with the previous one. In a lot of things, werewolves are only dangerous in giant hordes and are basically zombies. I also don’t like the idea that werewolves are only dangerous in a pack. An individual werewolf should be more than capable and terrifying enough on its own.

Always evil - I hate this so much. This is easily one of the main things I am fighting against with werewolves. That’s all I have to say, except for things I have already said, and unless I want to rewrite my entire 150+ page thesis here in this blog post.

Werewolves as just plain stupid - This infuriates me. This is a thing for wolves and werewolves alike: they are often just stupid. Dumb. Unintelligent. They do dumb things. In folklore, the wolf is even described by scholars from the Middle Ages as “stupid.” That is absolutely ridiculous. Werewolves were very smart in folklore, and in fact that was a huge part of what made them scary (their human intelligence), and not the modern day “don’t worry it’ll bash itself against the wall in a mad fit until it dies” werewolves.

Scared of fire and/or weak to it - Berserkers and some other werewolves were specifically described as being “immune to fire.” And why would a werewolf be scared of fire, like someone waving a torch around? They’re half human. They know what fire is.

Random encounter/common monster - Werewolves should be powerful, scary, and viewed with at least some amount of awe. There shouldn’t be something such as monster hunters hoping for “a run-of-the-mill werewolf attack.” There should be nothing run of the mill about werewolves, that cheapens them immensely. A werewolf or werewolves shouldn’t be the random encounter you roll in your tabletop game (they are also often immensely low level and it pains me), because that’s also cheapening them into simple, unscary, uninteresting cannon fodder.

Werewolves as sexual predators/serial killers/cannibals/crazy people in general - This came from werewolves being turned into crazy people/being a werewolf being considered merely a form of madness. It’s… bad. It helped spawn the whole “all werewolves are evil” thing that the Early Modern Period tried to popularize (and succeeded), and werewolves were never associated with sexual assault, etc. And yes, I know of the “werewolf trials” that were rebranded into werewolf trials that were about people who did things like that, but those were witches (more on the main culprit here).

Werewolves vs vampires - It’s very overdone. It can be done well, but it usually isn’t, and it’s considered the “default” today despite having no folkloric precedence and that just kind of irks me. It also considerably cheapens them both and makes pretty much all the characters of either type just end up revolving around each other and/or the conflict in some way or another, and they basically never get to be their own character(s).

Association with Victorian England - I am very tired of this one.

Association with demons and/or witches - Werewolves are not unholy and they’re so much more than just witches. The latter is a theme throughout my werewolf facts.

“I’m not actually a werewolf”/Just call them werewolves - Okay, so this is a pretty big irksome one for me. A werewolf is a werewolf is a werewolf. Werewolf means someone who turns into a wolf or wolf-man hybrid. “Wolf shifters” are werewolves, regardless of if they follow Hollywood werewolf tropes (because those are just Hollywood, too!). Worgen are werewolves. You don’t have to call them something weird in order for them to be cool and/or to justify them not holding to Hollywood werewolf tropes, especially since most things call vampires “vampires” and that’s just fine. Let’s remove the weird stigma around the word “werewolf” (back to the not taking them seriously thing, and in some cases, assuming they are all/making them all evil). This also applies to things like Twilight (side-note: I do not hate Twilight), where the “werewolves” turn around and say oh, no, we’re not werewolves, we are just people who turn into wolves [which is what werewolves are], werewolves are evil. Right, okay.

Gornography - I like werewolves and gore just fine, don’t get me wrong. Werewolves would maul people. Yes. They are huge and have huge claws and fangs and they’d be covered in blood. Werewolves and gore is awesome. But I do not like werewolves existing solely for the gore shock value and/or people who are into all the gore. They are often cheapened in this way, and it’s lame.

Werewolf names - I mean, sometimes they’re okay, and they can be done well. But Remus Lupin? Fenrir Greyback? Ms Lupescu? Can… we please make the werewolf character(s) have any character traits other than “I’m a werewolf!”? And maybe they shouldn’t broadcast their lycanthropy to the world. Characters with names like these come across as insanely contrived, namely (pun intended) if they aren’t born as werewolves to proud werewolf parents who want to name their kid(s) something like that. If they were turned later in life? That’s… convenient. And names like that really imply they are one-note characters, whether they really are or not (though they often are, sadly).

Werewolves super easily and sometimes instantly killed - “All we need is a [one] silver bullet!” says pop culture. Good grief. Gimme a break.

The werewolf always dies - This is a thing. The werewolf always has to die. Individual werewolf, a group of werewolves… they always die and/or are wiped out. The Wolf Man (1941) kind of started this, and everyone picked up on it (look at the overwhelming majority of horror movies after that, with a rare exception of Wolf [1994]), right down to werewolf side characters like the ones in Harry Potter and The Graveyard Book. For some reason, the werewolf and/or werewolves usually have to die, and often we see an end to the “curse.” Put frankly, that’s lame. This is one of many reasons why I love that Red Riding Hood (2011) movie so much (I have another post on that, for anyone interested).

Okay, so not all of those are tropes, but I had an opportunity to rant and I’m afraid I went and took it. Sorry!

I, of course, can be made to like most any werewolf as long as they are scary, intimidating, preferably big, do not have to work in groups in order to be formidable at all (a single werewolf should be a huge problem), are taken seriously (preferably no dog jokes; dog jokes instantly fill me with primal rage because they are dumb and overused and cheapen werewolves immensely and I hate them and sorry if that was candid), are not plague rats/zombie plague (there are not thousands of them in droves, are only dangerous in hordes, and are slaughtered en masse with great ease, and are only dangerous because they can “infect” others), aren’t always villains, don’t always have to die, and… that somewhat covers it. And I already said those things. Why did I repeat myself? I really dunno.

*deep breath*

That doesn’t cover all of the tropes on either side, by any means - I think about werewolves all the time, so I could definitely think up more, and I’m sure there are a lot more out there. But this is a honkin’ big list anyway, so it’s good for starters. Hope that helps! And thank you for asking. :D

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Eothiriel headcanons

Okay guys so this is for eothiriel week I'm sorry I'm just sorry •smol lothiriel (she is tiny) •i like the idea of lothiriel being significantly younger (like 10 yrs or so) than eomer •lothiriel sort of grew up with boromir and faramir, they would visit each other’s cities all the time and lothiriel spent a significant amount of time in gondor at the court during her early teenage years •lothiriel and faramir are BEST BROS FOR LIFE •lothiriel was betrothed to boromir at her birth, and their wedding was intended to take place upon his return from the council of elrond. the two weren’t in love, exactly (since they’d grown up together they thought of each other more like cousins), but they each respected the other greatly and were prepared to marry. boromir’s death greatly affected lothiriel •lothiriel was in minas tirith for the siege because she had been making preparations for her wedding to boromir. she refused to leave the city and instead assisted the physicians in treating the wounded from the battle •the first time she sees eomer, he is frantic to make sure eowyn is alive. lothiriel has not personally treated her, but is working in the ward where she is kept. eomer refuses to leave eowyn’ side that night, and lothiriel brings him a plate of food, which is the first time they speak. he is called away the next day for a war council, and lothiriel takes it upon herself to stand vigil over eowyn, eventually falling asleep sometime in the night. eomer returns late from the war council and sees lothiriel sleeping, having kept watch over his sister all day (as the night nurse tells him), and that is the first time he takes real notice of her •they speak occasionally after that, and lothiriel is enchanted with the idea that horses are sentient •lothiriel is no stranger to politics, and she is very sharp. she figures out that her father, the lords, and the remaining soldiers are headed into a suicide mission based on one last wild hope that frodo and sam will succeed •when the company goes with aragorn to storm the black gates, she finds herself not only worrying for her father’s safety, but also for eomer’s •it is lothiriel who receives frodo from gwaihir’s talons. she alone does not run from the eagles (whom the other gondorians think are nazgul at first), and she personally takes frodo to the physician’s ward to be treated (sam is taken closely behind by gandalf) •eomer is strangely relieved to see lothiriel when the company returns from the black gate. he is not sure why •eomer’s bffs are the horses. when he wants to talk to someone, he goes and talks to the horses, and they are all fiercely protective of him and loyal to him. he mentions lothiriel to them at one point and they all immediately become shippers on deck, but like to the nth degree •the horses all immediately start giving him advice on how to woo her, which is all heavily filtered through horse lens and is therefore mostly useless to eomer but is highly amusing nonetheless •eomer and lothiriel do begin to find themselves spending some time together, during which lothiriel discovers that eomer can SING •at one point, lothiriel picks a bunch of wildflowers and goes to visit the horses. she braids all their manes and tails with the flowers, and then strews the rest of them on the ground in thanks for the horses' efforts in the war •babies ever after let's be real folks elfwine isn't their only child

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So, I finished The Third Door today…

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Are my tears not enough?! ;_;

Spoilers ahead, if you haven’t read the series:

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Clones as Incorrect Quotes 1/2 Master Post (Canon-compliant and Standard Fix-It AU version) Ft. Jedi Disaster Trio

Unholy mixture of random generators, unsolved/ghost files banter, and things my friends have said

Occasional spoilers following below

A few notes for these: Tup is NB he/they. Hardcase is genderfluid. Vaughn is agender they/them. Jesse has no idea how any of this works, someone help him. NO CLONESHIPPING OR JEDI TRIO SHIPPING HERE!

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